The MEAN Stack: MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS and Node.js "There are huge advantages to using a uniform language throughout your stack. My team uses a set of tools that we affectionately call the MEAN stack: MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS, and Node.js. By coding with Javascript throughout, we are able to realize performance gains in both the software itself and in the productivity of our developers. With MongoDB, we can store our documents in a JSON-like format, write JSON queries on our ExpressJS and NodeJS based server, and seamlessly pass JSON documents to our AngularJS frontend. Debugging and database administration become a lot easier when the objects stored in your database are essentially identical to the objects your client Javascript sees. Even better, somebody working on the client side can easily understand the server side code and database queries; using the same syntax and objects the whole way through frees you from having to consider multiple sets of language best practices and reduces the barrier to entry for understanding your codebase. This is especially important in a hackathon setting: the team may not have much experience working together, and with such little time to integrate all the pieces of your project, anything that makes the development process easier is gold."
Posted on: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 20:02:16 +0000
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